Name: François Salgé
Country: France
NSDI: State of Play
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as Molière's M. Jourdain "le bourgeois Gentilhomme"
France is creating a NSDI without knowing it
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Thus NSDI is not per se an issue in the French
context!!!
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The current ISSUE is the RGE following the MP
report on IGN and the information society
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Not very high in the recent political agenda
NSDI: State of Play
Organizational and fundamental aspects
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Foundation
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France : from François 1er to 1982 centralised and
since 1982 the new way to decentralisation
22 régions, 99 départements, 36 000 communes,
60 M inhabitants, 550 000 km², 365+ kind of cheese
1986 : CNIG Policy advisor on GI
1986 : AFIGéO place where Public/Private actors
meet
1994-2002 : 100 "Comités départementaux de
l'information géographique"
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Organizational and fundamental aspects
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Local SDIs : data services (cadastre, ortho,
topo) for local partners
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Region PACA : joint initiative from decentralized
ministries and "conseil régional
Dept Vendée : collective initiative from Mayors led
by MEP
Dept Haute Savoie : initiative from "conseil général"
"Grand Lyon" : from Lyon city to the Urban
Community
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Organizational and fundamental aspects
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Standards
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since 1994 : EDIGéO
1992-1998 : chairmanship of CEN/TC 287
1998 : ENv as experimental French standards
National referencing system : RGF93 based on
Euref
On going work on "common framework for
interoperability of administration information
systems" (e-France / ATICA)
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Organizational and fundamental aspects
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Legal framework
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law directly refering to GI : "obligation de
rattachement", new continuous census, cadastre
(role of chartered surveyors)
many laws indirectly referering to GI :
decentralisation; sustainable development, urban
renewal
future law on Information Society
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Organizational and fundamental aspects
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Funding : four main mechanisms
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100 % public funding (often with public tendering)
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Barter
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vectorisation of cadastral maps : loc gvt and utilities
funding the initial capture, Cadastral service updating for
free to the partners
"tour de table" or "adding allocation to gvt subidies"
partial public funding : subsidies + licence fees
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rasterisation of cadastral maps, electronic nautical charts
geodesy, aerial survey
local governments' GIS
most of NMA products
no public funding : pre investments and return on
investments
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Organizational and fundamental aspects
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NON GI perspectives
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Master plan for the entry of France into the
Information Society
State modernisation and new ways of governance
assignment of general interest services mission
against contract conditions
New issue from the public tendering rules :
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how to avoid the Ministry of agriculture to go for a
call for tender while the ministry of public transport
is "half" funding the orthophoto component of the
NSDI: State of Play
Roles and responsibilities
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Cadastre = department of Min economy,
finance and industry - 100% funded
nautical chart = department of Min of defence 100% - itemized budget
statistics = department of Min economy,
finance and industry - 100% - itemized budget
NMA = "établissement public" of Min of public
works with a "CA" - 50% - idependent budget
intergovernmental organisation for GI = CNIG
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Organizational and fundamental aspects
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Intellectual property rights and pricing
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IPR is not an issue as the existing law (including
database directive) covers the issue
pricing is not an issue as it is a consequence of the
funding mechanisms
Educational aspects
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"école d'ingénieur" versus universities
setting up of a high level French geomatic training
system
Geoformation portal
NSDI: State of Play
Content
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geodetical service : permanent GPS service
(NMA, municipalities, universities, etc.)
Core data : Référentiel Géographique à grande
Echelle, nautical charts
Other data : digital geological maps, cadastral
maps (to support taxes collection) AND access
to ENVIRONMENTAL DATA
Semantic interoperability : RGE, continuous
updating, NMA's integrator role
zonages
les composantes du RGE
adresses
image
Topographie
(y compris MNT)
propriété
NSDI: State of Play
Data documentation
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ENv metadata in use with free software
available on line (Reports V2)
metadata catalogue on coastal zone
departmental GI committee
all specifications should be made public
NSDI: State of Play
Access to information
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Discovery services
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old fashion non maintained CNIG "catalogue des
sources"
planed : observatory
Data access and geoprocessing services
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EDIGéO library
free co-ordinate transformation software
National commission for informatics and liberty
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User expectations and benefit – objectives of the
infrastructure
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Driving applications
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eGovernment, eEurope
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free access to environmental data, risk management
all applications in local governement : local planning, citizenship
debates, third party "oposability"
creation of "établissements publics de coopération
intercommunale" and "schema de coherence territoriale and
Urbanism local plans,
strengthening contact with PM "agency for ICT in the admin"
Territorial information systems with shared GI at departemental
level
Exploitation of public information
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as for any public information